What to do with red or white potatoes?

[SwishTN]

Hi All!

I am in a CSA co-op, and I keep getting TONS of potatoes. I don't find any recipes for them here, only for sweet potatoes, etc.

Any ideas? I don't have a dehydrator, either... so that adds to the challenge a bit.

Thanks all!!!

Lauri

[Veganforlife]

Yikes! I'd donate them to a homeless shelter. But that's me. I don't "do" potatoes since going raw...I've asked my co-op to switch off. I'll take greens instead of the 'taters.
sorry

[SwishTN]

hmmm... that is a good idea, asking if they can switch them for me...

I am going to grind some of them up and use them as a dark circle paste : ).... Maybe I'll get beautified : )...

I've been giving them to friends... I just have SOOOO many!!

BUT, if anyone has any ideas that would still be great!

Lauri

[Aleesha Sattva]

i've read that potatoes (being part of the night shade family) are not healthy... especially raw. so i don't do them at all. but some people make a dehydrated potato chip outta them.

a soup kitchen would probably LOVE the donation :)

[raweater]

Potatoes aren't very healthy due to their high sugar and low nutrient content. Each time I eat cooked potatoes I get allergies, and baked potatoes have been found to form over 100 toxic chemicals while cooking, 50 of which are known carcinogens.

[bsqmurphy]

I tried making potatoe chips in a dehydrator (alissa's recipe), but didn't like them much.

As they others suggested, I would either ask the csa to swap them for something else or donate them to your local food bank.

Bri.

[RawSinger]

Potatoes aren't very healthy due to their high sugar and low nutrient content. Each time I eat cooked potatoes I get allergies, and baked potatoes have been found to form over 100 toxic chemicals while cooking, 50 of which are known carcinogens.

It doesn't look like potatoes are low in nutrients.


http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2549/2


http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2548/2

[juliebove]

They can be eaten out of hand like an apple, or sliced and salted. My mom and daughter both like them like this. I don't though.

[raweater]

It doesn't look like potatoes are low in nutrients.


http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2549/2


http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2548/2

Would you mind telling me what you see there? nutritiondata.com always crashes my computer when I go on it (and this time was no exception, I tried).

[jacsam]

I tried making potatoe chips with them and yikes....not so good. Yeah, I haven't found much to do with potatoes either. Yams and sweet potatoes are a different story.

[Veganforlife]

Would you mind telling me what you see there? nutritiondata.com always crashes my computer when I go on it (and this time was no exception, I tried).

See if you can read this: